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Does taking a statin lower PSA in men being tested for prostate cancer risk?
Ever since it was recognized that there might be an association between taking statins (as a preventive treatment for elevated cholesterol levels) and risk for prostate cancer (which is now disputed),...
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Another update on statins in prostate cancer
Out of the 600+ presentations at the IMPaCT meeting in Orlando last week, your correspondent somehow managed to overlook an interesting poster that offers new evidence in support of the potential...
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Statin therapy seems to improve outcomes after radiation therapy for...
According to data just published in the March issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology•Biology•Physics, patients diagnosed with high-risk prostate cancer who take statins while...
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Statin use, prostate cancer risk in men having biopsies
A new report from researchers at The Cleveland Clinic provides information on the association between statin use and prostate cancer in men who received a prostate biopsy between 2000 and 2007. Tan et...
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The proposed REALITY trial and the impact of statins on prostate cancer
As a mentioned earlier this week, a new article by Moyad and Klotz has suggested that it may be possible to carry out a randomized clinical trial to evaluate the impact of statin therapy on the...
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Effect of statins on survival not evident in new meta-analysis
A new meta-analysis has (once again) demonstrated that statin therapy does not appear to be associated with a survival benefit in men who have received first-line treatment for prostate cancer with...
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Statin therapy and cancer-specific mortality in Denmark
We don’t want to get into the details (which are covered extensively in other sources), but a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, and encompassing the entire population of...
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Statins in clinical trials for advanced forms of prostate cancer
An editorial by Freeman and Solomon (“Statin drugs and prostate cancer: time to consider proactive strategies in patients“) in the April issue of the Journal of Urology has proposed the idea of...
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Statins in prevention of prostate cancer progression after radical prostatectomy
A detailed review of treatment data from 1,200 patients treated by radical prostatectomy fails to offer any support for the development of a large, prospective trial of the clinical use of statins as...
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Statin use before diagnosis associated with less risk of prostate...
According to an article just published on line in Prostate, taking statins before a diagnosis of prostate cancer lowers risk for prostate cancer-specific mortality (but does not lower risk for...
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Does statin therapy really extend survival of men diagnosed with prostate...
An analysis of another large cohort of prostate cancer patients (this time from the United Kingdom) has again suggested that there is a reduction in the risk of prostate cancer-specific mortality for...
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Does statin therapy lower risk for diagnosis with prostate cancer?
The question of whether regular use of statin therapy (with a drug like simvastatin or atorvastatin, for example) can actually lower risk for a diagnosis of prostate cancer is still unanswered as of...
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Statins and risk for diagnosis of prostate cancer … a not so small surprise
A recently published article in Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases has suggested (again) that statin therapy can decrease risk for a diagnosis of prostate cancer … but this new article comes with a...
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Statin therapy appears to extend progression-free survival for men on ADT
A combination of two studies by a group of researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston has provided some further evidence of the potential benefits of statin therapy for men being treated...
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Should all patients starting on ADT be on a statin too?
A newly published article in JAMA Oncology has now suggested that adding a statin to a patient’s treatment regimen at initiation of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) may significantly impact time to...
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Statins as agents to reduce risk for prostate cancer
In the past few years we have become used to seeing data from a range of studies suggesting that ongoing statin therapy is associated with both a lowered risk for diagnosis with prostate cancer and...
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Statin use and all-cause mortality among prostate cancer patients
Yet another study involving a large number of patients (this one from Taiwan) has again concluded that men with prostate cancer who take statins are less likely to die within a definable time period...
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Statin therapy lowers mortality rates among Danish prostate cancer patients
According to a media release and a presentation given at the European Association of Urology (EAU) in Europe this week, statin therapy has a small but significant impact on overall and prostate...
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Saturated fats and prostate cancer risk — again
Data from the North Carolina-Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project, a projected funded by the Department of Defense’s Prostate Cancer Research Program, have again shown that diets high in saturated fats...
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Can statins really lower risk for cancer-specific mortality?
Yet another large, epidemiological study has shown a clear link between taking statins and a reduced risk for cancer-specific death (prostate cancer included). According to a report on the HealthDay...
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